A team of scientists have been researching the comic power of unintentional
autocorrecteds in the hope of making computers funnier

A team of scientists are working on a scheme to make computers more humorous by harnessing the power of autocorrect errors.

Hannu Toivonen, a computer scientist at the University of Helsinki, is leading the research into how autocorrect misnomers could be used to inspire greater comedy in the world of digital communications.

The professor was inspired to carry out a study into the unintentional humour of predictive text mistakes after falling victim to an erroneous email sign off.

Speaking to The Times, he said: “It was meant to say ‘Best Regards’. What it actually read was, ‘Best Retards’.”

His paper, Let Everything Turn Well in Your Wife: Generation of Adult Humour Using Lexical Constraints, rated the humour levels of numerous rogue autocorrects such as “meet at the bum stop”, which is consider funny and “just off from berk . . . sorry I mean work” which was rated as less entertaining.